BUCK: Biden’s baby formula shortage. Welcome back to Clay and Buck.

With 70% of the nation’s baby formula now OUT OF STOCK, desperate parents in Michigan waited in a mile-long line — only for some “to be turned away emptyhanded.” pic.twitter.com/FD5q3Kj21O

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 29, 2022

BUCK: This is the kind of thing that you would expect a government, particularly one full of activists who really want to control every aspect of your life — one thing — they gotta do. We say, “Oh, they need to make sure the trains run on time.” This is even more important than the trains running on time. This is making sure there’s baby formula on the shelf. Government had a hand in creating the shortage. FDA, which is the federal regulatory authority, was asleep at the wheel, took too long, didn’t coordinate, didn’t figure this out.

And people have figured out — as in the American people — that the Biden regime was slow on this one, to put it mildly. They went from, “It’s not our problem. There’s nothing that we need to be doing here” to, “Oh, gosh. We’re so sorry. We’ll go get military planes full of baby formula because we realize parents are rightly furious about this.” And it just keeps on piling up. The Biden administration hasn’t had anything to tout, hasn’t had any good news — I don’t know — this year you could probably argue.

It’s basically June. We’re halfway through year two of the Biden presidency. And it’s a mess. And, Clay, that brings me to this NBC News report. NBC News, one second, they’re telling you politics and then it’s, “Great summer kale salads,” and it’s, “Oh, look at this video of a baby seal that we found somewhere!” It’s not for in-depth news consumers, to put it mildly. It’s kind of just the casual news consumer — and, of course, Democrats.

Even NBC is saying, “We got a problem here. They had this piece where they said — this is a quote, Clay; I love this — “Any assessment of Biden’s performance needs to take into account the epic challenges he faced from the start.” Aww! Maybe we should throw a blankie over Biden’s knees and bring him a sippy cup ’cause it’s so hard to be president. Clay, this is not what we were promised — meaning “we, the American people.”

The Biden White House thinks they have a messaging problem, but what they really have is a “we’re incompetent zealots with a tenuous grasp on reality” problem https://t.co/Gu3rcbgklU

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) May 31, 2022

And it is exactly what you and me and this audience said and knew was going to happen, which is you put a bunch of incompetent zealots in charge who don’t even seem to understand the cause of inflation, don’t even seem to understand the downsides of an open border, are effectively economic illiterates. And don’t even get me started on the vice president the czar for the border, the czar for baby formula, whatever. It’s a mess, and they realize it’s a mess ’cause Biden’s upset ’cause his numbers, Clay, are worse than Trump’s.

CLAY: Yeah, that’s a big part of the story. Another big part of the story is that Biden was furious at his own White House for allowing the baby formula shortage to emerge, right? And I think this is one of those situations where it’s hard — you know this, Buck… When you are inside of the White House it’s hard to know what’s going on in the larger country. So that’s one where Biden can justifiably be furious at his own administration because unless he has family members who are coming to lunch and dinner in the White House.

And saying, “Hey, you know, we’re having trouble going out and finding baby formula,” there’s just so much noise out there on a day-to-day basis it’s hard for him to be — certainly of all people — involved and aware of what’s going on. But I thought that was one of the most interesting parts of that NBC expose, whatever you want to call it, inside of the Biden White House, was Biden’s furious at his own administration.

And the other thing I thought was interesting is there are now reports that Ron Klain is on his way out, that Biden’s gonna have to have a new chief of staff, that they’re basically just throwing up their hands and saying, “We have no idea what to do at this point,” and that entire article just furthered what I think the national consensus is of an administration that is completely lost.

BUCK: I also like… The article is pretty devastating, folks.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: It’s supposed to be an explanation, and it takes just the notion of, “Biden had all these challenges when he came into office!” They’re trying to message and massage the message, if you will, because the numbers are terrible. Biden is also upset. I thought this was really interesting. He saw polling that indicated he had dropped among suburban women, which we’ve been talking about a lot.

CLAY: That’s who we’ve trying to talk to every day, Buck, the moms, the impact that we thought he was gonna have — and, by the way, he claims he never looks at polls so this story would obviously directly contradict how much he’s paying attention to the polls.

BUCK: We gotta make Clay and Buck Mom Brigade T-shirts in time for the election –

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: — because the mom brigade is out in force, folks, they’re upset about the lockdowns of schools the Democrats pushes pushed, they’re upset at looking at those gas prices the pump, a lot of households, maybe the mom is a co-earner, maybe she’s the sole earner, but in a lot of houses she’s often just in charge of making the budget work one way or another.

CLAY: She’s driving the kids around, a lot of time pumping the gas herself, you know, the minivan bomb brigade out there, I mean, taking the kids to camps, taking the kids to school, being obligated and responsible for all these trips all over her city.

BUCK: So Biden’s taking note of the fact that suburban women are turning on him, which is a nightmare. The only thing scarier for Democrats than that is losses in the African-American community politically, right? If they start seeing that drop down dramatically then they think they know it’s all over for them. But suburban women are very high on their list of key constituencies here.

And it’s interesting, Clay, because suburban women are turning on Biden; Biden is turning on his own staff. He’s upset that they are having to do cleanup on aisle Biden every five minutes. So his claim is apparently to his staff, “Stop contradicting what I say. I’m Amtrak Joe, and, meanwhile, some of us are sitting here, “No, no!

“Joe, they’re trying to prevent like a nuclear war from breaking out because you say something stupid about Russia or whatever. And for the moms they’re looking at this all, Clay, and they’re saying, “What am I getting in this bargain of the Biden regime? Price of gas way up, price of food way up, harder to pay my mortgage — and the Democrats and their media are all-in on drag queen story hour for my 8-year-old at the local library!” It’s not working out so well for them.

CLAY: Yeah, and, by the way, in reading that NBC article, Buck, I can’t believe that it’s not getting more attention. You are the president of the United States. Is he not signing off on the official statements that were being made by the White House? ‘Cause it specifically talks about that speech where he says, “Go get ’em,” at the end — or, sorry, not the State of the Union.

But he said something like, “My God, he’s gotta go,” or whatever he said at the end of the speech about Putin and the Ukraine situation. The White House puts out a statement saying, you know, trying to clean up what he has said. Multiple times they’ve done this. Is Biden so out of commission in the White House that they are putting out statements from the White House that he’s not even seen… Because I think about how… I think the answer is yes.

BUCK: Yeah. Yeah.

CLAY: Think about if you were president or if I were president — heck, Buck, if the Clay and Buck show put out an official statement that neither you nor I saw regarding something that we said — imagine how furious we would be on this radio show. Let’s pretend that Clay and Buck has a spokesperson, you or I say something on the show and then later on there’s a media quote from Clay and Buck, and we’re like, “Did you see that quote? Did you sign off on that?” The fact that Biden is even able have a White House that disrespects him to such a degree that he’s not even signing off on official White House statements about his own comments raises the question of who the actual president is.

BUCK: I think there’s also probably a scramble going behind the scenes right now to get — the Democrat playbook here is going to be, in terms of personnel White House staffing, who can we bring in — from the Obama administration to take senior roles? Now, there’s already talk of Susan Rice possibly being chief of staff. They’re gonna try —

CLAY: It’s gonna be a black woman. Let’s just cut through the noise, it’s gonna be a black woman, Buck, because Joe Biden is gonna say, “This is the first black woman to ever be chief of staff,” and that identity politics arena is the only one he knows how to do at this point.

BUCK: And here’s the problem with just going back to the Obama administration personnel, shall we say?

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: And your point about the identity politics —

CLAY: That’s the only thing he’s gonna have. Ron Klain’s a white guy. He’s stepping down. “I’m gonna put the first ever black woman in as the chief of staff, this is a huge deal!” He doesn’t have any regard for talent. It’s all about optics.

BUCK: But I’m not sure at this stage that some of the bigger names… I don’t know if some of the former Obama personnel, Obama administration personnel who’ve now gotten all happy with the book deals and the contributorships and sitting on the boards of companies, you want to go join… You’re gonna join this after a midterm wipeout? You’re gonna try to join this administration? I gotta say that’s gonna be tough duty: Join the administration of the least popular president in living memory who’s in clear cognitive decline and now he’s shouting about how his staff is having to clean up his mess, because he’s rather it just be a mess. That’s a tough job posting. I’m just saying gonna say it.

And remember, you’re probably gonna have a House that is Republican, and the Democrats are gonna lose control there, and you probably are gonna lose the Senate too. In fact, when we come back, Buck, new numbers that are out state by state approval ratings. I’m gonna send you this link. I’m not even sure if you’ve seen it.

BUCK: Oh, yeah, I’ve seen it.

CLAY: As bad as it is nationwide, it’s actually worse in the places that are gonna be deciding control of Congress.

BUCK: In sports, has there actually ever really a mercy rule — you would know — or is that just a thing that we talk about in the schoolyard?

CLAY: It exists in Little League.

BUCK: Okay, exactly. This coming election, Clay, has to be the mercy rule invocation election where Democrats lose so badly that they’re going to claim that we’ve got college kids playing on the Little League team, you know?

CLAY: Look at you with all the sports analogies!

BUCK: That’s right. Sports. I like the sports.